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Quote by Herman Melville
The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable

The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass. – Herman Melville

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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone? – Herman Melville

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Nature
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A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience than the former his vows of allegiance to martial duty. – Herman Melville

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Obedience
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Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price. – Elie Wiesel

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I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They dont know how – Elie Wiesel

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The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival. – Morris K. Udall

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Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individuals instinct for self preservation. – Albert Einstein

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Believing is easier than thinking. Hence so many more believers than thinkers. – Bruce Calvert

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Listen. Dont explain or justify. – William G. Dyer

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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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